William Gibson

Writing

Born: 1948-03-17
From: Conway, South Carolina, USA
Gender: Male
Popularity: 0.3

Also Known As

William Ford GibsonWilliam F. Gibson

Biography

William Ford Gibson is an American and Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk. Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his early works were bleak, noir, near-future stories that explored the effects of technology, cybernetics, and computer networks on humans—a "combination of lowlife and high tech"—and helped to create an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s.

Awards & Nominations14 won · 44 nominated

Nominated

Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

Agency

2021
🏆 Won

Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award

2019
🏆 Won

Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award

2018
🏆 Won

Inkpot Award

2016
Nominated

Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

The Peripheral

2015
🏆 Won

Locus Poll Award

Distrust That Particular Flavor

2013
Nominated

Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

Zero History

2011
Nominated

Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Foreign Novel

Spook Country

2009
🏆 Won

Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame

2008
Nominated

Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

Spook Country

2008
Nominated

Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Foreign Novel

Pattern Recognition

2006
Nominated

Arthur C. Clarke Award

Pattern Recognition

2004
Nominated

Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

Pattern Recognition

2004
Nominated

BSFA Award for Best Novel

Pattern Recognition

2003
Nominated

Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

All Tomorrow's Parties

2000
Nominated

Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

Idoru

1997
🏆 Won

Aurora Awards

Virtual Light

1995
Nominated

Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

Virtual Light

1994
Nominated

Hugo Award for Best Novel

Virtual Light

1994
🏆 Won

Tähtivaeltaja Award

1992
Nominated

Nebula Award for Best Novel

The Difference Engine

1992
Nominated

Locus Award for Best Short Story

Skinner's Room

1992
Nominated

Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

The Difference Engine

1992
Nominated

Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

The Difference Engine

1991
Nominated

BSFA Award for Best Novel

The Difference Engine

1990
🏆 Won

Aurora Awards

Mona Lisa Overdrive

1989
Nominated

Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

Mona Lisa Overdrive

1989
Nominated

Hugo Award for Best Novel

Mona Lisa Overdrive

1989
Nominated

Nebula Award for Best Novel

Mona Lisa Overdrive

1989
🏆 Won

Seiun Award for Best Translated Long Work

Neuromancer

1987
Nominated

Nebula Award for Best Novelette

The Winter Market

1987
Nominated

Nebula Award for Best Novel

Count Zero

1987
Nominated

Locus Award for Best Collection

Burning Chrome

1987
Nominated

Locus Award for Best Novelette

The Winter Market

1987
Nominated

Hugo Award for Best Novel

Count Zero

1987
Nominated

Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

Count Zero

1987
Nominated

Hugo Award for Best Novelette

The Winter Market

1987
Nominated

Locus Award for Best Novelette

Dogfight

1986
Nominated

BSFA Award for Best Novel

Count Zero

1986
Nominated

Nebula Award for Best Novelette

Dogfight

1986
Nominated

Hugo Award for Best Novelette

Dogfight

1986
Nominated

BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction

The Winter Market

1986
🏆 Won

Nebula Award for Best Novel

Neuromancer

1985
🏆 Won

Ditmar Award

Neuromancer

1985
🏆 Won

Philip K. Dick Award

Neuromancer

1985
🏆 Won

Science Fiction Chronicle Award

Neuromancer

1985
🏆 Won

Hugo Award for Best Novel

Neuromancer

1985
Nominated

Locus Award for Best First Novel

Neuromancer

1985
Nominated

Locus Award for Best Short Story

New Rose Hotel

1985
Nominated

Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

Neuromancer

1985
Nominated

Locus Award for Best Novelette

Red Star, Winter Orbit

1984
Nominated

BSFA Award for Best Novel

Neuromancer

1984
Nominated

Nebula Award for Best Novelette

Burning Chrome

1983
Nominated

Locus Award for Best Novelette

Burning Chrome

1983
Nominated

Locus Award for Best Short Story

Hinterlands

1982
Nominated

Nebula Award for Best Short Story

Johnny Mnemonic

1982
Nominated

Locus Award for Best Short Story

The Gernsback Continuum

1982
Nominated

Locus Award for Best Novelette

Johnny Mnemonic

1982